The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-06-30

| utest detail by the founder of the New Dcpar-
ture that the tiny apartment will in time form
| part OF Il perfect block. As with the build
ingS, so 1t Is with the pavenentS. and indeed
with everything. each portion planned care
fully and scientifically with reference to the
completed and harmonious whole. The strong
point of these peculiar people is absolute per-
fection in the smallest details. every action be-
| ing the deliberate ouigrowth of forcthouylt
! and concentration.
| 1t cost the colonis.s much time and labor TO
get the railroad line just as they wanted it.
From the landing It runs due north nearly five
miles, from which point it turns y. - deg. f.
| (lnaynetic) and continues this tangent 30 IL
| miles to Ncgaton, to extend later some miles
| beyond In all that distance there is not hill
or depression on the airline, the .ralic hcin"
b inches TO the mile, and for two-thirS of the
| way the ties can be laid on the ground. The
line was cut through 100 feet broad. and is
| to lie witlcned to POO feet. 100 telegraph poles
are already in Topolobampo, and one of the
| coloni>tS has taken the contract to furnish So
600 tics.-to be paid in Mexican silver at the
rate of 4Ir. per tie, delivered on the line. The
wood is the famous ,oio coIpra.lp, Il species of
| red wood much used in mnn. timber and
| warranted to last Il hundred years.
The levels for pipe and brick watcr-tuhe
have been run from point on the river six
miles below Ne"aton, and the fall from the
| river bottom to Camp 20, on the line of the
II. Il. near the eastern boundary of their Ma
chis rancho comprising 35,5oo acresj is thirty
| feet in a distance of twcnty-four miles. From
that point to the city sit" twenty miles distant.
the fall is sixty feet. Mr.. l.. a. Gould. who
| ran the levels and studied the resources Of the
farm, estimates in his report that the entire
Mach!S tract can he irrigated for IL dollar an
acre. This same Mr.. Gould, after .rcn,lin"
weeks with the T"polobampoans, went to
California to iiN up his affairs there. in order
roloniSt> next fall. He is one of the best
known hortclltur>t> in Fresno, and in his re-
port on the Credit Foncipr Co., SAYS: The
soil Of the MaehS vii! average well with that
of the celebrated fruit country Of the Fresno
plain in California With the railroad ana
pipe line completed. we have in tlis exceeding
" fertile plain the greatest possibilities III ltor
trut,,rc and agriculture. Never having any
frost and very little for. it will be most de-
sirablc place to live.
Mr.. Could planted more than ten thousand
| selected trees, vines. berries, etc.. brought
with great care from his California farm. He
says they are all doing well ON the Credit
Foncer Lands at Sufragio in fact growing
faster in that virgin soil than he ever saw
them before. He predicts great future wealth
to til" company III fruits, ana asserts that with
out irrigation the olive will .ic! a certain and
profitable crop. Mrs. Wop.r,lf. one of the
coloni>tS. reports that vegetables of every class
sown in the c"mpanN'S garden at Sufra"io
came up With surprising rapilty, and that in
flavor and size they equal any ever catti
At present th'r" Is Il" sickness at AL in the
colony. There We're seven deaths during the
first five months. four of them from smallpox.
The houses al S'ufra-io. Nr.atnn and taIlilin:,-
hui are mace Of brick and adobe. under the
direction ni Engineer FaNs. The .u-ar-inill is
working hu>y at their farm in I ahniniIui;
wells have been sunk in The MachiS rancho and
Pacific City: The channel is buoyed ont in ; -
fat!ions Of water 1T low tide. and coioui>t fish
crmen have made Il rc'lui>ition for harpoon>.
etc. with which to capture some Of the whales
and porroi>e> that daily spout in Joshua
straits.
These ar" hrI few of the facts ut llanl.
given by wholly diSniere>tea parties WHO have
lived with the roloni>t> in Sinaloa. some of
whom made the most searching investigation
worldly all. They should hr sufficient rctllta-
tion of the hi"h N-r"lor:H >toric. To which W.,
have been trratrtl,-of sickness, suffering. star
walton and death at Top"!obampn. SOM" of
the widest Of those false accounts cn!ti,;.tcd
from persons who We're never within several
hundred miles of III" place Whose woinl con-
dition they 50 graphically described.
As for the seeding "con>prator~." WHO one
night folded their tents like the Arab, and as
silently stole away he main ;ruu!l. With
them WAS Il cEroni;. Ii>tl>te for work. Al
though matters hal been fully explained to
them "n,! the difficulties in the WAY fully set
forth. their vivid in:a@iEation> ha, somehow
pictured Il paradise already prepared in the
wilderness by miraculous means. When they
finally came to understand that their daily
bread must be honestly earned. and AL pro-
prrtory claims in t. city ~ the sea- fun, paid
for in money or labor for he benefit of the
whole. il WH> more tiian their lazy >elli~llnc>>
could cninr" Hence their undynitird flight.
and the lihrlouS items With which they have
been tloong the press to co~,r this oWn
pcrlidv. FANNIE Il. W ,RD.